Cloud Engineer (AWS)

About the role

The Cloud Engineer (AWS) will support the development of all required documentation necessary to support the engineering, security, and operational processes for a large federal agency. The ideal candidate will possess a strong grasp of cloud computing SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design solutions that ensure maximum flexibility and scalability, while meeting all required security controls.
• Support the development of all required documentation necessary to support the engineering, security, and operational processes.
• Perform business and technical alternative analysis for any/all aspects of the solution, aiding the customer in making decisions along the way.
• Facilitate the transition of the solution to operations, initially and ongoing ensuring at all times the system is operating within the anticipated operating boundaries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other Engineering or Technical discipline or equivalent relevant experience
• At least four (4-7) years of professional IT experience performing duties in support of federal government agencies.
• 4+ years design, implementation and/or support of highly distributed applications demonstrating strong architectural skills to ensure availability, reliability, etc.
• Hands-on experience with AWS (Required) or other cloud services reinforced with architectural design experience
• Experience designing and delivering large-scale solutions, most of which that have advanced to the production state.
• Strong grasp of cloud computing SaaS, PaaS and IaaS fundamentals with experience designing and implementing solutions.
• Develop cloud base solution designs and implementation plans based on customer needs
• Familiar with lift-and-shift migrations and migration methodologies for cloud migration
• Experience in Cloud Compute, Networking, Storage, and Identity Management

Skills

• Strong grasp of cloud computing SaaS, PaaS and IaaS fundamentals with experience designing and implementing solutions.
• Hands-on experience with AWS (Required) or other cloud services reinforced with architectural design experience.
• Develop cloud base solution designs and implementation plans based on customer needs.
• Familiar with lift-and-shift migrations and migration methodologies for cloud migration.
• Experience in Cloud Compute, Networking, Storage, and Identity Management.

Pay

$99,008 - $134,368 per year